A Simple Twist of Fate

It seems that suddenly the winds have blown away all the bad luck I was having. After making merit at the temple last week, I was still feeling a bit bummed out about having to teach extra classes. Lucky for me, one of the extra classes is at the local hospital. My students are nurses and doctors who genuinely want to study English and want to keep up their conversational skills. It was a very relaxing and interesting two hours of my Friday afternoon, especially since we could talk about more abstract and cultural things.

Saturday we moved. It was blazing hot and we had quite a bit of confusion with the landlord. Overall, it went off flawlessly and we are very happy with the place. Dave christened our place by burning three sticks of incense and some yellow candles in a wine bottle. I guess that's how you're supposed to clean out the house spirits. We had some friends over last night and everyone kept commenting on how nice and clean and new our place was. It made me feel happy. In memory of the Flora Family, I taught my friends how to play Writesy-Drawsy. They loved it! Sadly, we had to say goodbye to our friend Trudy who lives in India. She was here visiting some friends of ours for a few weeks. On the bright side, we have a free place to stay in India if we end up there.

It was such a simple thing, but it was really nice to be able to make our own breakfast this morning. American breakfast! We made veggie omelets and hashbrowns and toast. As we were walking back from the market I found a 20 ฿ note on the ground. It's not that much money but it definitely sealed the deal that my bad luck streak is over. Tonight we're going to the Chinese market and then gonna go home and watch some movies. We found the cheapest DVD player ever and it works! We also may or may not be getting two kittens for our house. I can't wait! It's so nice to be living close to everyone and to be able to hang out with folks on a week night. Right now I'm pretty ecstatic about everything in my life. Zing!